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Bluesky post by user @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social that reads,
I INSTALLED “LINUX”. BECAUSE WINDOWS IS FOR MEN WHO ASK PERMISSION TO EXIST. I CRUSHED THE INSTALLER WITH MY BARE HANDS AND NOW THE TERMINAL CALLS ME “SIR” BUT MY KERNEL KEEPS PANICKING. WHAT COMMAND MAKES THE COMPUTER SUBMIT COMPLETELY? I REFUSE TO GOOGLE
~Yes, all of this user’s posts are like this.~
I think it’s meant to be confusing. If you’re unfamiliar with code, you’ll likely glaze over the random string of symbols and assume it’s like broken HTML or JSON or something.
Hell even if you are a programmer, I think most programmers assume you can’t use a colon in a variable or function name, much less just a colon.
learning that the shell
[[is a function and]]is an argument definitely did something to my brain.Definitely. But it’s worth expending some skull meat to understand what’s going on. :)
In some of my university classes I liked to use Hiragana characters (from Japanese) for variables and function names, just to be a jerk.